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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is the right that Professor Binchy is talking to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Much of it has been.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: The social contract, yes. Just answer the question. Is it right or wrong to end one's life, no matter what?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not right, so it is a sin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: So what is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: What is the concern for Professor Binchy if I decide to die at the end of my life?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: How does it impact Professor Binchy's life? How does my death impact his life as a white, privileged man? He will not even think of me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It is not true that it all impacts other people. It does not. It impacts the immediate people around a person and if one puts in the safeguards, then one protects the people who are most vulnerable. It is not fair to keep saying that it is logical. Professor Binchy believes it is a divine right to protect life. It is better if we can have that conversation, if Professor Binchy believes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I do not actually put videos on YouTube, if Senator Mullen wants to look. I would appreciate if he started respecting my contribution. Just because he does not like it does not mean he has to dismiss it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Professor Binchy is just repeating what he said. I am sorry. He is after doing this so many times today-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: He is just repeating what he said to Deputy Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Advance the conversation instead of trying to throw red herrings-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Now Professor Binchy knows how Deputy Kenny felt, does he not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: So logic is based on legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: So drafters of legislation can rewrite legislation in a logically sound way to accommodate the end of people's lives and end-of-life care. So once the legislation exists, the logic exists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It does it anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: It does not, because it does not give an inherent right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for attending. As I only have a few minutes, I will ask three questions. Dignity has been mentioned a few times today and has been consistently raised in the more general conversation. What does Professor Binchy understand by dignity? What is dignity? When we look at this historically over time, right back to Rousseau and Kant, many different thinkers have addressed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: Pro-life is central is to people whose life is being determined by extreme poverty, addiction issues and stuff like that. Is that not pro life?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Lynn Ruane: No. I am asking Professor Binchy a question. He said he is talking in human rights terms, not religious terms. I ask him to tell me what those human rights terms are. What human rights terms is he talking about?